Greene, NY 13778 Frost Dates
Greene, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/04, roughly 249 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 163 days after the last spring frost.
Greene sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Greene's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Greene against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 163 frost-free days, Greene places 31,431 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 960 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13778's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Greene can differ from the 13778 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Greene's frost date answer different questions.